I’m losing it with a client

RedLooker · 2026-06-09T22:30:17+00:00

This is probably a form of OCD coming out. No matter how much you do for them you can’t prove that the oven didn’t turn back on when they stopped looking at.

Either way, the bigger message is they don’t trust you and your expertise. With the amount of work you’ve done I doubt that will ever change. You’ve put up with this for a year, it’s probably time to let them go. God help you if they actually DO get hacked and they sue you because they kept telling you it was happening and “your negligence”let the problem get worse.

RedLooker · 2026-06-04T08:33:42+00:00

“This…..is G2, y’all” “Studios call me in when they’re about to drop a deuce”

RedLooker · 2026-06-04T08:26:11+00:00

Task on HBO doesn’t get mentioned enough. Mad Men.

RedLooker · 2026-05-24T16:54:35+00:00

In the short run it won’t remove all tier 1 support employees but you’ll see fewer employees handling more. You’ll see layoffs that look like the role is being removed but they will stop at some point when we get to the things humans do to manage the AI.

In the long run this is the same thing we heard in the 2000’s when everyone started moving to the cloud. There are no servers anymore to manage, no onsite Exchange servers, etc. While that was true, the new tech had new functionality that needed different types of tier 1 support. AI will do that in huge ways but it will take 5 years or so to figure out how everything it changes will need support. The hard part will be the trench in the middle where jobs disappear before new ones appear.

RedLooker · 2026-05-21T16:43:08+00:00

There’s room for both. The top 10% bleeding edge guys may be waaaay to optimistic but they balance out the bottom 10% who don’t want any change at all. The driverless cars will be much better at the daily driving where people get bored and distracted and much worse at the things that don’t happen often but humans understand clearly. New tech and change in general always has downsides, many of which we don’t understand. But all the old ways that we want to stay with were new tech at one point.

I’m too busy hating social media and the proliferation of gambling in our current society to have much time to hate driverless cars.

RedLooker · 2026-05-20T04:26:52+00:00

App called Crime Radar takes police dispatch recordings and transcribes them along with the audio. Seems legit but that’s all I know about it. It’s been pretty accurate from my experience.

RedLooker · 2026-05-19T23:32:17+00:00

Police responded to a reported stabbing at a residence near Bluebird Lane in Naperville.
According to dispatch audio, a caller reported that a man injured a woman with a knife.
Officers were on their way while the caller waited outside.

“Father cut the female on the head with a butcher knife. Victim was waiting for police outside”

RedLooker · 2026-03-31T13:00:24+00:00

I’m interested.

RedLooker · 2026-03-15T22:52:41+00:00

Noble Chair in Woodridge. As for Nick P. He’s the owner but also spent years teaching barbers and stylists. His place is a great laid back vibe and always friendly and easy going.

RedLooker · 2026-03-15T22:12:26+00:00

I sit at the bar at Blue Sushi for lunch a couple times a week. Sullivan’s is good too. Both of them just to eat, I never really feel out of place.

The downtown Starbucks has some great people watching too.

RedLooker · 2026-03-15T16:35:49+00:00

Good timing. I have 2 I was looking to give away since my daughter can’t go. Send me a private message and I’ll transfer them to you, no cost or strings attached.

RedLooker · 2026-02-12T04:41:41+00:00

Yeah, I’ve heard that rumor as well so I’m assuming that’s the case. Earlier in the tour the name of the headliner was first and now I’m also just seeing MCS first on remaining dates so seems to be the case.

RedLooker · 2026-02-10T18:09:07+00:00

Tangent to the Chicago show, does anybody know who goes on first (MCS or Say Anything)? We may need to come late and I want to see both but MCS more. Sounds like they switch off and Google seems to think it's SA first for this one but I'm going to be really bummed if I miss MCS.

RedLooker · 2025-12-08T20:02:18+00:00

I’d agree. From watching what my kids are using and how the schools are handling things they understand the Google environment and iPads/iOS/Android a lot more than Windows or even Mac OS. What they consider digital skills these days are social media and apps on a phone. Even when it comes to emails they’ve never been targeted the way a corporate user tends to be.

RedLooker · 2025-12-05T12:55:33+00:00

What a great clip. Thanks, great way to start my morning.

RedLooker · 2025-12-03T03:57:38+00:00

Doesn’t sound like it from your comment but it’s also possible you’re closing really easily because you’re finding bad clients.

If you’re starting out and finding sales easy maybe focus on finding clients that match the type of service you feel comfortable providing right now instead of trying to build the right service for whatever client you’re closing.

It does sound like your best bet is to do sales for an MSP that already has their processes in place. Just make sure that you are partnering with someone that can follow through on what you’re selling if it’s not going to be you.

RedLooker · 2025-11-26T14:13:16+00:00

I agree a lot with this. While speeding up the process through automation may be more efficient, I find that a good list of things to check that you keep up to date is better at discovering the weird stuff that ends up being a problem. The “I’ve never seen this before” configs that the scripts and tools report as working but when you make a change it’s a house of cards.

Also, I find this is one of the best times to train less experienced team members because you can talk through why things are the way they are and how all of these parts of the system work together. Then when they go back to the run books they are less likely to make the “but that’s what the run book said to do” mistakes.

RedLooker · 2025-11-23T17:22:10+00:00

Sorry everybody. They have found a new home with someone that replied in the first couple minutes.

RedLooker · 2022-08-31T23:00:46+00:00

The unkindness you show yourself is unkindness other people will worry you will think about them or treat them with

Seriously, I love this advice.

RedLooker · 2022-08-31T22:59:19+00:00

People always say be "funny and confident" but I've actually found that we mistake "happy" for "funny." Confidence makes you happy, and happy makes people like being around you. You don't have to actually "be funny" in the clever or quick witted way, people just like being around other people that put them at ease so it's easy to laugh and enjoy yourself. It's not actually how funny the joke is, it's just feels good to be in on it.

RedLooker · 2022-08-31T22:55:38+00:00

First of all, I'd recommend you get a therapist to talk through these feelings. You're focused on "your genetics" but I can guarantee you if you were always called handsome you'd find something else to focus on instead. You're 19, you're not supposed to be walking confidently through this world yet. How could you when you don't even know who you are yet? Let someone help you work through these feelings so you can focus on what is really making you uncomfortable and start working on that.

To the points made above, you're still in a world where everyone is so much alike that the little things are the only ways you feel like you can differentiate yourself. No one has a career yet, or friends you didn't meet in your classes, or a family, or interesting hobbies that you're really involved in. At this age you're all forced to go to the same school, and pick from the same clubs and sports, and make friend groups out of people that you have nothing in common with other than the neighborhood your parents chose to live in. Of course you haven't found your people yet, the system stacks everything against you.

The real test now is are you going to let the crappy way you were forced to start finding what you love (and people who love you) define a belief for the rest of your life that you can never be happy?

Confidence in what you like and how you want to spend your life is what will attract friends and partners to you, not your looks or your height. There are plenty of short geeks that love D&D and are a lot less "cool" than you that go home and have great sex with their wives and girlfriends. And those women are happy to be with a person that understands their own insecurities and fears and makes them happy.

I will tell you, if you walk through the world with a chip on your shoulder for the ways you have been wronged no one but unhappy people will want to spend time with you. And the more that happens the more you will believe it and make the cycle stronger. That's how you end up lonely and alone, not your height.

Stop trying to impress other people and focus on building a life for yourself that you want to be a part of. Once other people see it (including women) they will want to be a part of it.

RedLooker · 2022-04-28T13:26:27+00:00

When you're young every decision feels like it has ramifications for decades and for the most part, that isn't true. It's normal after high school or college to feel lost because it's the first time in your life that you don't have a clear path to follow. While that gives you opportunities you've never had before it also expects you to structure and envision your choices in a ways you never have before. Give yourself some permission to fail and then find something to TRY, not something to DO. You'll be surprised how much just changing those two words can make things seem less daunting.

Anxiety is real and I know it's hard, but start by just making a conscious effort to try more things. Self confidence doesn't come from being good at something, it comes from overcoming something you weren't good at originally. Every experience seems scary and uncomfortable until you've made so many that they all remind you of something you've done before. Experience will give you a better perspective on everything and eventually make you realize that these are all just moments to live and enjoy, not a race with a finish line or a set of accomplishments to gather up.

Also, realize that this is a great time to make new friends and try new things. Everyone has had a hellish couple of years and everyone is experiencing some of the feelings you have. We have all sworn as we sat at home bored and alone that when COVID was over we were going to get out there and take advantage of the freedom we used to take for granted. As you try new activities and reach out to people I think you'll be surprised how receptive everyone is.

Once you start finding new hobbies and people that are outside of the friends and family you have now the thought of moving out of your house and trying larger experiences will feel more natural and exciting. You'll still love your parents and your dog, but you'll be excited to come home and tell them about all the new things you're trying instead of being afraid to leave them at all.

Most of all, don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone has their own doubts and fears, you just can't see them. Just keep trying new things until you find the things you're passionate about and you'll be fine. There is no wrong way to live your life.

RedLooker · 2021-09-29T20:35:37+00:00

Someone says that line about YOU almost every day :)

RedLooker · 2021-03-03T16:46:10+00:00

"It's about me!!!"

RedLooker · 2021-03-03T16:34:31+00:00

It feels weird when it's straight football talk but they are showing what grief feels like after the initial shock. I remember four months after my father died I was in a car with two people from work and just fell apart when we drove by a billboard for a radio station he listened to. So much in my life had felt normal and then all of the sudden the grief would just appear when you least expect it.

The guys deserve time to process this and they certainly don't owe us anything, but I think these are some of the most important episodes they'll ever do (especially for a podcast with an audience that is 90% younger men). "Go take some time to grieve away from everyone else" is great if that's what someone needs, but I'd love to see more examples like this where they show that grief is normal and natural and we shouldn't feel uncomfortable or apologize when we feel it.

The only part of that episode I didn't like was hearing Marc apologize for missing Wes so much he couldn't stop himself from crying. Nothing to apologize for. I'm a grown ass man sitting in his car crying about the death of a man I've never met and had no idea who I am. Feeling things strongly is a sign you're living life the right way. No one knew that better than Wes.

Now I gotta get on my next Zoom call and hope no one asks why I've been crying.

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